Elaine Kahn is a writer, musician and artist currently based in Los Angeles. She is the author of Women in Public (City Lights, 2015) as well as several chapbooks including I Told You I Was Sick: A Romance (After Hours, Ltd., 2017), A Voluptuous Dream During An Eclipse (Poor Claudia, 2012) and Customer (Ecstatic Peace Library, 2010). Writing has been published in Art Papers, Open Space, Brooklyn Rail, West Branch, The Poetry Foundation, Jubilat, San Francisco Arts Quarterly and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a BFA from California College of the Arts. She is an instructor of creative writing at the Poetry Field School.